# BigBear Translate: Offline — Voice, Photo, Video Translator > Voice, Photo, Video Translator (iPhone/iPad app by jiong dai.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bigbear-translate-offline/id6799470043 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [jiong dai](https://appshunter.io/developer/1848251530) - Category: Travel, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 6 MB - Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Released: 2026-09-14 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is BigBear Translate? Talk — order a nice dinner abroad. Listen — follow a lecture in a language you don't speak. Watch — enjoy a foreign movie or lesson on your phone. Read — understand the signs on a foreign street. Every language barrier — unlocked and solved. The only translator that does all four, fully offline. YOUR CONVERSATIONS STAY YOURS Unlike cloud translators, every word is processed on your iPhone — never uploaded, never stored, seen by no one. Not even us. Try it in Airplane Mode: everything still works. FOUR WAYS TO UNDERSTAND Talk: hold the button, speak, and the other person reads your words in their language — on a screen turned toward them, and spoken aloud. Listen: live captions of the speech around you, sentence by sentence, with the translation underneath. A lecture, a doctor, an airport announcement. Watch: start it, then open any video app. Captions float over the video in real time — movies, lessons, anything that plays. Read: point the camera at a menu or a street sign. The translation appears right on the photo. AND AFTERWARDS, IT WRITES IT UP FOR YOU Every session is saved as a document: the raw transcript, the live translation, a tidied script with the "um"s and false starts cleaned out — and a fresh re-translation of that clean script, which reads far better than sentence-by-sentence captions. Plus key points: what it was about, what was decided, the names and numbers. Export any of it as text. It all happens offline, on your iPhone. Early access, included at no extra charge. This one needs a chip that can run Apple Intelligence: iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 or 17. On other iPhones, translation, captions and photo work exactly as usual. LANGUAGES English and Chinese both ways, Spanish and English both ways. You can also add more languages yourself in Settings — French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and more, each pairing with English and with Chinese. BUILT FOR PARENTS, AND FOR TRAVEL Big text, big buttons, no sign-up, no account. Save your own short phrases for the moments when talking is hardest. PAY ONCE 3 days free with everything unlocked, then a one-time purchase. No subscription. No daily caps. No extra fees. Ever. Requires iOS 26. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Full Unlock | $2.99 | one-time | ## Is BigBear Translate safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess BigBear Translate. ## Is BigBear Translate legit? BigBear Translate: Offline has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BigBear Translate is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.5 — 2026-10-14 Menus and store signs translate better. Dish names (ropa vieja, tostones, sloppy joe) and common menu and store phrases (well done, clearance, subtotal, "la cuenta, por favor") are no longer translated word for word. Add your own dish and store names in Settings → Words. Plus fixes and polish. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-13 Better live captions. Sentences are cut more cleanly, quick dialogue no longer overwrites the line before it, and the caption window keeps the previous line and can be square, wide or a banner. New word lists (Settings → Words) fix misheard names. Captions keep working when you turn the video volume down. Plus fixes and polish. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-27 • Photo: translates whole paragraphs instead of single lines, so sentences read correctly. Pinch to zoom, tap any translation to read it in large type, switch to a text list, and save or share the result. • Talk: tapping the button instead of holding it no longer gets it stuck. A whole conversation is now saved as one record. • The microphone keeps working after you use Video captions. • Video captions no longer switch off during long stretches without speech. • Clear messages when microphone or camera access is turned off. • Unlock or restore your purchase from Settings. • The app now opens in your iPhone's language: English, Spanish or Chinese. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-20 Minor improvements, and a clearer App Store page. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-17 Localized app name and permission prompts — English, Spanish and Chinese now follow your iPhone's language. ## More apps by jiong dai - [WordPaws](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wordpaws/id6762327870) All apps by jiong dai: https://appshunter.io/developer/1848251530 ## Related topics [bigbear translate](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/bigbear-translate) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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